At least 49 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, said the civil defense in Gaza, reported Xinhua.
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for Gaza's civil defense, told Xinhua that 32 people were killed as a result of intensive Israeli airstrikes on the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
Basal said that the Israeli army destroyed dozens of inhabited homes without prior warning in a "systematic" bombing campaign targeting the neighborhood.
The spokesperson added that civil defense crews are recovering the bodies of the dead under difficult security conditions resulting from the Israeli targeting of the neighborhood, which is densely populated with civilians.
In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, five were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent in the Al-Mawasi area, west of the city, according to Basal.
He said that three people were killed when Israeli aircraft targeted a gathering of Palestinians in the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City, while four others were killed in another airstrike on an apartment in the Al-Sahaba area in the same city.
Basal indicated that five people were killed by Israeli army fire near U.S.-backed aid distribution centers, in the center and south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Tuesday that IDF troops continue operational activity against the "terrorist organizations" throughout the Gaza Strip.
"In the southern Gaza Strip, IDF troops operating in western Khan Yunis struck and dismantled a structure from which mortars were launched toward IDF troops operating in the area," it said.
"In the northern and central Gaza Strip, IDF troops are eliminating terrorists and dismantling terrorist infrastructure in the area," it added.
These developments come as the coastal enclave is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has intensified since March, when Israeli authorities closed all crossings into the Strip.
Gaza-based health authorities said on Tuesday that hospitals in the Gaza Strip recorded five deaths due to starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, including two children. This brings the death toll of starvation and malnutrition since October 2023 to 227, including 103 children.
On March 18, Israel resumed its military operations in the enclave. At least 10,078 Palestinians had been killed and 42,047 others injured since Israel renewed its intensive strikes, bringing the total death toll since October 2023 to 61,599, and injuries to 154,088, Gaza-based health authorities said on Tuesday.
Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
